NVIDIA Mellanox MBF2H516A-CEEOT 100GbE Network Card Dual QSFP56 Ports 16GB On-board Full-Height Half-Length

NVIDIA Mellanox BlueField-2 SmartNIC delivers advanced functionality, unmatched performance, and agility for today’s most demanding workloads. By combining the industry-leading ConnectX-6 Dx network adapter with an array of Arm cores, BlueField-2 delivers a perfect blend of hardware and software accelerations. BlueField-2 brings agile and high-performance solutions for security, machine learning, cloud, edge computing and storage applications while reducing total cost of ownership.

BlueField-2 SmartNIC features the second generation BlueField-2 Data Processing Unit (DPU)—an innovative and high-performance programmable networking engine. The DPU integrates an array of eight powerful 64-bit Armv8 A72 cores interconnected by a coherent mesh with a DDR4 memory controller and a dual-port Ethernet network controller.

BlueField-2 SmartNIC supports dual QSFP56 ports at link speeds of 10/25/50/100 GbE or a single port of 200 GbE, a 1 GbE out-of-band management port for the Arm subsystem, and includes an integrated 16-lane PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 switch.

BlueField-2 SmartNIC complete portfolio includes a variety of form factors including HHHL (half-height, half-length), FHHL (full-height, half-length), and Open Compute Project Spec 3.0 (OCP 3.0 Small Form Factor).

At the heart of BlueField-2 SmartNIC is the industry-leading ConnectX-6 Dx network adapter with unprecedented built-in hardware functionality, performance and resiliency. BlueField-2 hardware accelerations include advanced RDMA/RoCE capabilities as well as innovative cryptography, storage and networking accelerations. Relying on these built-in offloads, the BlueField-2 powerful array of Arm cores can be programmed for sophisticated custom accelerations and control path manipulations. BlueField-2 also benefits from the rich Arm ecosystem to deliver complete solutions to cloud operators and service providers.

Key Features

• Best-in-class hardware offloads with Arm processing power, including:

• ASAP2 - Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing

• NVMe SNAP storage emulation

• IPsec/TLS data-in-motion

• AES-XTS data-at-rest

• A regular expression (RegEx) and DPI accelerations

• SHA 256-bit hardware acceleration

• Hardware Root of Trust (RoT)

• 1 GbE out-of-band management port